Hi Ruranga,
EA = Early Availability
LA = Limited Availability
GA = General Availability
PR = Patch Release
Usually, the first few release(s) of a new feature tier are known as Early Availability (EA), which gives customers who want to try the new features in a lab setup, although this version may not be stable.
Limited Availability (LA) releases are typically EA releases that were shown to be problematic, and may be pulled from the support site. They are still available, but typically only through support (hence the 'limited' part). Unless you have a really good reason, I would not recommend upgrading anything in production to an LA version.
When a version is deemed stable, it will generally be released as a General Availability (GA). Further improvements and minor bug fixes will be released as Patch Releases (PR).
Where you are on 6.7.4.10, the latest PR would be 6.7.4.14. 6.7.5.x will have different features introduced, and so if you want to go to 6.7.5.x, I would do 6.7.5.5.
Thanks!
Original Message:
Sent: 07-11-2020 01:09 AM
From: Ruranga Jayarathna
Subject: Latest Stable SGOS version
Hi,
We have ASG S400-20 and SGOS is - 6.7.4.10. But recently we have identified an SSL related issue and we think it is due to a bug. So we are planning to upgrade the SGOS to latest stable version. Regarding that I want to know below facts
- As per the Release Note Directory (I have attached it here) there are terms as "GA", "LA" and "PR"? Hope PR - Permanent Release. But what does "GA" and "LA" means?
- Does any one using any of the fallowing version in ASG and can you please let me know the status. We are planning to upgrade to either of them
- 6.7.5.2 LA
- 6.7.5.5 GA
Kind regards,
Ruranga